Bicycle Quotes - Page 3

• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Umpires, Track

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Exercise, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Communication, Skills

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 13, 2011

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• Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

  Tori Amos

  Sleep, Color, Guy

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• I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

  Vittorio De Sica

  Thieves, Way, Film

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• Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Healing, Heart

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.77, Om Books International

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• There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Clouds, Cycling, Land

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.72, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Sea, Feel Good, Singing

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• I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

  Major Taylor

  Giving, Champion, Racing

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

  Lech Walesa

  Funny, Science, Cycling

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• Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way before the combustion engine appeared and, not only took over the roads, but changed our view of machines. We've forgotten that pedal power is a potent form of energy.

  Richard Ballantine

  Views, Car, Historical

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• One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

  Michael Palin

  Cycling, Important, Riding A Bicycle

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• Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cycling, Doe, Records

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• I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.

  William Saroyan

  Thinking, Males, Female

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing

  Jacquie Phelan

  Riding A Bicycle, Poor, Refrain

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• Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Should Have

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• Wear whatever makes you less sad and feels right when it's on. Don't wear too many things that serve no function. Wear what you can wear on a bicycle. Wear what you can run in or survive in if necessary. If something feels right, wear it all the time. Don't look too cool. Keep some things in!

  Margaux Williamson

  Running, Looks, Function

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

  Dervla Murphy

  Inspirational, India, Atlas

  1965 Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

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• At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Cycling, Age, Wake Up

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• Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.

  James Bethea

  Mountain, Bikers, Messengers

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• I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

  Angela Merkel

  Childhood, Three, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

  Lois Capps

  Children, School, Cafeteria

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• I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

  Mehmet Oz

  Bridges, Wife, Used

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